Posted by Zepachu on September 12, 2000 at 00:06:08:
In Reply to: What's with the lag? Can an Imm explain this? [no] posted by Cothurak on September 11, 2000 at 23:11:32:
There are two kinds of lag on CF. 1) The lag that happens anytime, and after it's done you're still at the same health and stuff.. meaning it didn't happen during a tick. That could be a few things.. but nothing to do with the internet connection, unless of course you get flooded with a huge amount of data when it ends. Most of the time something on the actual system is causing lag. Maybe there's a memory leak in something, causing everything to slowwwww downnnnn.. *shrug* 2) TICK LAG. When it only happens during ticks... and a tick may last 10 seconds, where normally its just about irrecognizable. That, logically to me at least, is when they may have extended logging functions on... causing more information to be saved each tick. It seems every 10 minutes or so there is a SLIGHTLY longer tick, which I think is when they do a "flash backup" of character locations, possessions... and other little things. When the lag hits at every tick, its possible they've made it save everything every tick... and then including other variables that we don't even know about.. tracking skills in use, everyone's "affects" whatever... Who knows. Or maybe Jullias just sits there and hits the box every 45 seconds as a nervous habit. *shrug*
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